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Search Artist's Name in Omni

3 ways to search for an artist in Omni:

By Author: hatoum mona

By Subject: hatoum mona

By Any field: mona AND hatoum (or as a phrase search: "mona hatoum")

Check out artists in the Parkett series: Art Collection NX456 .P358 (volume contents: http://www.parkettart.com/books)

200 artworks, 25 years : artists' editions for Parkett : catalogue raisonne: Art Collection (non-circ) N6496.3 .S9 Z87 2009. Artists listed alphabetically and chronologically.

See also Art now, a set of artist biographies and art movements: Art Collection N6497 .A78 2008 v. 1-4

Finding Books and Exhibition Catalogues

Search Omni to find books, exhibition catalogues and other materials. Apply Boolean (AND, OR, or, NOT) to combine terms, quotations to do phrase searching or an asterisk (*) when truncating a word (e.g. sculpt* - to retrieve sculpture, sculptures or sculptor.)
 
Narrow or refine search by adding other terms, such as geographic, time period, or an art form: e.g.
painting AND abstract AND canada
  
Broaden search using the * symbol to truncate for variable word endings or by using "OR" between similar terms nested in brackets: e.g.
sculpture* AND (bourgeois OR "kiki smith") This is a nested search where similar terms are placed in brackets and separated by OR
frenkel AND exhibition* AND (agnes OR kingston)
"laurie anderson" AND video* (for all formats of videorecordings) [or limit to Resource Type "Visual" in  Omni]
 
Use quotes around a phrase or concept, including full artist names: e.g.
"performance art"      "nam june paik"
 
Limit large result sets by library location or by using "NOT": e.g.
"yoko ono" NOT lennon
"avant garde" (tip: limit to Queen's Location e.g. Art Collection)
environments OR situations (limit to a Queen's Library - e.g. Stauffer - or a Queen's Location - e.g. Art Collection)
 

Use the subheading “exhibitions” or exhibition catalogues: belmore AND exhibition* [truncated for singular or plural]

From your results, select useful titles and click on the Subject Headings assigned to find other books on your topic. E.g.:
Anatomy, Artistic
Art, Modern--21st century
Art movements--History--20th century
Art criticism
Conceptual art
Decorative arts--Canada
Human figure in art
Installations (art)
Painting, modern--20th century
Sculpture--Technique
Street art

Art Auction Catalogs

Canadian Art Sales Index: 1977-80; 1986/87-2010/11; 2014/15-2016/17 availble in the Art Collection. Ceased in print 2018.

Canadian art at auction 1968-1975 : a record of Sotheby & Co.

Cowley Abbott: Canadian art auctioneer auctions and sale prices realized on website.

Waddingtons: Canadian dealer that offers Prices Realised from their auctions.

Art Sales Catalogs: Queens has a collection of 2,500 (ca.) catalogs from Sotheby's and Christie's and these are stored in Stauffer Library Compact Shelving.

Artnet.com:  fine arts auction records from international and national auction sales. The database is updated daily with records from 1989 to the present. To access the Price Database, click "log in" in top right corner

Getty Research Portal: access to digitized art history texts from a range of institutions, including auction catalogues.

Wildenstein Plattner Institute Sales Catalogues (freely available): 22,000+ sales catalogs from the 17th century to 1945.

Online Book Repositories

The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.